Dark Ages
High Middle Ages
Late Middle Ages
(500-1000 AD)
(1000 – 1300 AD)
(1300-1500 AD)
DARK AGES (500 – 1000 AD) 🙏
consists of 5 centuries
HIGH MIDDLE AGES (1000 – 1300 AD)
(High Middle Ages) Christian Scholasticism emphasis on the Platonic
reasoning
“scholastics” or schoolmen defending dogma
Oldest Universities
OCMPSV
Oxford 1167
Cambridge 1209
Montpellier 1220
Padua 1222
Sorbonne 1253
Valladolid 1292
Scholasticism
dominated the universities
Franciscans and Dominicans
LATE MIDDLE AGES (1300 – 1500 AD)
Philosophers
- John Duns Scotus
world of faith had to be kept separated.
Main Power Sources in technology of middle ages
➢ Water
➢ Animals
➢ Human
water mill flourished in Europe
was (middle ages)
the Norse Mill.
Norse Mill
drive a millstone
Vertical water mill
powered by a stream
Teutonic tribes (middle ages)
Soap - decomposing animals or vegetable fats
- cleaning textile fabrics.
Georgius Agricola published
De re metallica
- techniques of shafting
3 forms of iron:
PCS
rot iron – moderately tough and
easily bent; loses any sharp edges
carbon –
distinguish three irons
bellows
furnace a strong blast of air
Blast furnace –
used for melting (lead or copper);
(series of pipes)
Warfare (middle ages)
Gunpowder – carbon and sulfur, invented in China, han song dynasty
made up of carbon, sulfur, saltpeter
Cannons – Christian war against Muslim in the 13th century
Other Notable Inventions
Alchemy
mixture of science, philosophy, and mysticism
- matter was composed of four elements:, earth, air, fire, and water
Common aims:
o Transmutation of base metal (lead) into
a nobel metal (gold)
o Creation of an elixir of immortality
o Creation of panacea to cure any diseases
o development of an Alkahest (universal
solvent)
Paracelsus –
added a third element salt to make trinity of alchemical elements
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